The Los Angeles City Council voted 14-1 on Wednesday to rename the state and federal holiday on the second Monday in October. Los Angeles joins several other cities in the United States to make the switch, including Cambridge, Massachusetts, which renamed the holiday in 2016.
Rumors of a pending new interpretation of state gun laws have led several Connecticut firearms dealers to dump their inventory of so-called "pre-ban" weapons, but state officials have thus far remained mum regarding any new developments.
A federal civil case involving a Coventry resident who alleges that police in 2011 illegally confiscated a cache of registered firearms may shed more light on the direction that state officials intend to go, however.
